January 2013 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galactic systems in 1924 Also try: Galaxies	31 New Year's Eve Also try: New Year, Fireworks Soviet Union disbands in 1991 Also try: USSR, Iron Curtain	1 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Also try: Abraham Lincoln, slavery, Civil War New Year's Day Also try: New Year's Eve, resolution, goal	2 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengali in 1947 Also try: India, nonviolence	3 Author J.R.R. Tolkien is born in 1892 Also try: Middle-earth, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit	4 Scientist Isaac Newton is born in 1642 Also try: laws of motion, universal gravitation, Scientific Revolution	5 George Washington Carver Day Also try: scientist, peanut, inventor
6 Mountain man Jebediah Smith is born in 1798 Also try: trapper, explorer, mountain man	7 President Millard Fillmore is born in 1800 Also try: president, Whig Party, Know Nothing Party	8 Rocker Elvis Presley is born in 1935 Also try: rock and roll	9 President Richard M. Nixon is born in 1913 Also try: Nixon, Watergate, foreign policy	10 The League of Nations is formed in 1920 Also try: Paris Peace Conference, United Nations	11 Alexander Hamilton is born in 1755 Also try: Federalism, Secretary of Treasury	12 Merchant and statesman John Hancock is born in 1737 Also try: Patriots, Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence
13 Poetry Break Day Also try: poetry, poet, figurative language, poetry analysis	14 Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending the Revolutionary War in 1784 Also try: Treaty of Paris	15 The first Super Bowl is played in 1967 Also try: Super Bowl, football	16 Prohibition begins in 1920 Also try: Roaring Twenties, Great Depression Biologist Dian Fossey is born in 1932 Also try: gorilla, Gorillas in the Mist	17 Inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin is born in 1706 Also try: inventor, lightning rod, electricity	18 Robert Scott reaches the South Pole in 1912 Also try: South Pole, explorer	19 Author Edgar Allen Poe is born in 1809 Also try: The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee, poetry
20 LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the rollercoaster in 1885 Also try: patent, gravity	21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Also try: Civil Rights, I Have a Dream, non-violence Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced in 1799 Also try: Edward Jenner, vaccination, disease	22 The uranium atom is split at Columbia University in 1939 Also try: nuclear power, nuclear weapon	23 National Handwriting Day Also try: printing practice, letter recognition, cursive Paris Peace Accords end the Vietnam War in 1973 Also try: Vietnam, Paris Peace Agreement	24 Gold is discovered in California in 1848 Also try: Gold Rush, Sutter's Fort, 49ers	25 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service in 1915 Also try: telephone, inventor The first Winter Olympics are held in 1924 Also try: Olympics, athlete	26 Hockey player Wayne Gretzky is born in 1961 Also try: winter sports, hockey
27 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in 1756 Also try: classical music, opera, symphony, Requiem	28 Space shuttle Challenger explodes in 1986 Also try: space shuttle, Christa McAuliffe, Teachers in Space	29 Political activist Thomas Paine is born in 1737 Also try: Common Sense, French Revolution, The American Crisis	30 President Franklin D. Roosevelt is born in 1882 Also try: FDR, New Deal, World War II, liberalism	31 Baseball player Jackie Robinson is born in 1919 Also try: baseball, African-Americans, segregation	1 National Freedom Day Also try: Emancipation Proclamation, slavery, abolition	2 Author James Joyce is born in 1882 Also try: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners Groundhog Day Also try: winter, spring, Punxsutawney Phil

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